Opening Keynote

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Vercel announces a production stack for agents: a unified AI SDK 6 beta with an agent abstraction and one-line tool execution approval, an AI Gateway that routes to 100+ models with zero token upcharge (20B tokens/day, 30k customers), serverless fluid compute billing only for active CPU, microVM sandboxes for safe code execution, and an open-source Workflow DevKit for durable agent loops. Examples: Vercel Agent for AI code review, AI investigations, a lead-processing agent, a Slack BI agent (open sourced) and an abuse agent that cuts case time by 59%. Downloads and usage hit multi‑million and multi‑billion scales.

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1. 0:00Conference welcome
2. 1:01AI revolution pages to agents
3. 2:47AI SDK for unified access
4. 6:18Agents built at Vercel
5. 8:24Agent lifecycle definition
6. 12:16Demo: agent with AI SDK 6
7. 20:46Vercel AI Cloud for agents
8. 25:46Primitives of Vercel AI Cloud
9. 32:33Workflow development kit
10. 39:06Agent marketplace options
11. 41:17Choosing agents to build
12. 42:22Lead processing agent case
13. 44:49Abuse detection agent
14. 46:56Slack agent for BI
15. 49:00Future agent inspiration
16. 49:41Agent on every desk

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